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Photograph by Kippa Matthews

If you go down to the beach today…..

Swimming in the open sea is a simple, free and timeless pleasure. It can be exhilarating; it can make us feel sharper and more alive; it can give us the space to look at the world from a fresh perspective and can bring us to our senses.

Part swimming club and part art club, Sea Swim celebrates the creative inspiration that a dip in the ocean can bring. The Club is open to anyone – just pop along to Scarborough’s South Bay and you’ll find the Sea Swim HQ – a pair of beach huts transformed into mini-galleries, bursting with the artworks created by club members.

Club members join in regular swims, share their stories and create works of art. There’s also usually tea and cake!

Regular swims take place from May to September and Sea Swim creations are being exhibited and performed around the region throughout 2012.

‘I am thrilled to be patron of this beautifully simple and simply beautiful idea.  Poetry is going down to the sea again.’
Carol Ann Duffy, The Poet Laureate, Patron of Sea Swim

For up to date swim times, keep in touch through:
Facebook: ‘Sea Swim Group’
Twitter: @northseaswimmer
email :seaswim@btinternet.com

Sea Swim is a partnership between imove, artists John Wedgwood Clarke and Lara Goodband and Scarborough Borough Council.

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• A Glimpse into Sea Swim

  

  Scarborough, writing and taking the plunge! Filmed at South Bay on a cool June day with brave swimmers and a foolhardy cameraman....

• John Wedgwood Clarke

  

  John is the one trying to get you to brave the North Sea in Sea Swim! John Wedgwood Clarke is a poet, editor and teacher who specialises in producing text for public art works, usually through collaborating with local groups and communities.  He’s written poems for benches on the Wolds Way, opened The Shop of...

• Lara Goodband

  

  Lara has a finger in lots of imove pies!   Lara Goodband is a freelance artist-curator.  After graduating in art history from the University of York and Manchester University, Lara went on to take up her first post as Exhibitions Curator at York City Art Gallery.  Lara moved to Scarborough in 2002, to develop a...

• Sea Swim Exhibition

  

  An exhibition documenting the project so far, with art, words, projections and sound by the Sea Swim artists and the swimmers themselves. Open Mon – Fri 8.30am to 5pm & Sat 10am – 4pm Special Event: 11 February 2012 The Sea Swim exhibition launches as part of 'Coastival’s Rather Splendid Day Out’, with readings, performances...

• Sea Swim at Shandy Hall

  

  Image: The Sea Swim windbreak created by textile designer Sally Greaves-Lord.   John Wedgwood Clarke and Rob Mackay combine words and sound, alongside projections and films by Lara Goodband and David Malone....

• Scarborough Literature Festival – The Long Weekend

  

  John Wedgwood Clarke and the Sea Swim writers bring Sea Swim to Scarborough Literature Festival with poetry readings and workshops. The workshop takes place on Saturday from 1pm - 3pm, with a cost of £4.  Suitable for age 16+ The reading by John Wedgwood Clarke is from 3.30-4pm and is free.  ...

• Swim Club: Regular Swims

  

  Join the swim club weekly from May to September at the Beach Huts for regular swims, talks and creativity. For up to date swim times, keep in touch through: Facebook: ‘Sea Swim Group’, Twitter: @northseaswimmer or email: seaswim@btinternet.com Click here to sign up for the Sea Swim mailing list....

• Sea Swim at The Pannett Gallery, Whitby

  

  The Sea Swim pop-up gallery travels up the coast to Whitby with its treasure trove of art and artefacts from the Sea Swim artists and swimmers....

• Ballet Boys on the Beach

  

  In association with the Stephen Joseph Theatre, the Ballet Boys will perform a Sea Swim inspired piece on the beach itself. At South Bay Beach Scarborough, near Beach Huts 237 & 238....

• Big Swim Weekend

  

    Workshops, performances, pop-up exhibitions and film screenings with Lara Goodband, John Wedgwood Clarke, Iona Calvert, Sea Swim commissioned artists and Sea Swimmers. Join us for The Big Swim at South Bay on Sunday at noon....

• Sea Swim Big Swim

  

    Water babies, silver surfers and everyone in between are invited to take the plunge with us in the Big Swim, celebrating Scarborough’s sea-bathing heritage. @ South Bay Beach Huts, 237 & 238, Scarborough (below the Clock Cafe)...

• Sea Swim at York Art Gallery

  

  Inspired by the art of Paul Nash and Gustave Loiseau, John Wedgwood Clarke and Rob Mackay present a programme of poetry and sound. Reading and workshop by John Wedgwood Clarke 5 September Reading - 12.30pm Workshop - 1.30-3.30 (16yrs +)...

• Castle Headland, read by John Wedgwood Clarke

  

  Scarborough poet and avid Sea Swimmer, John Wedgwood Clarke, reads 'Castle Headland', one of his Scarborough Elegies....

• imove and… sea swim

  

  Our Sea Swimmers finish the sentence 'i move and...' to tell us how they feel when they move....

• Lara talks Sea Swim

  

  Keen swimmer and creative Lara Goodband tells us about Sea Swim....

• Sea Swim – Claire tells it like it is

  

  Our sea swimmer, Claire, gets straight to the point......

• Sea Swim through a club member’s eyes

  

  We asked Sea Swim club member, Ella, to tell us about sea swimming....

• The thinking behind Sea Swim

  

  John Wedgwood Clarke explains how Sea Swim came about and about how swimming helps free his imagination....